Robert De Niro Expects to Make at Least One More Film With Martin Scorsese

September 19, 2026

Robert De Niro believes his five-decade collaboration with Martin Scorsese is not finished. The Oscar-winning actor expects the pair to make at least one more film together, although no project has been confirmed. Their partnership began with 1973’s Mean Streets and has produced 10 features, including Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, before recent reunions The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.

Robert De Niro expects to work with Martin Scorsese again. Their decades-long collaboration may have another chapter.
Robert De Niro expects to work with Martin Scorsese again. Their decades-long collaboration may have another chapter.

De Niro has indicated that he believes he and Scorsese will make at least one more film together, although no specific project has been announced.

Their creative partnership stretches back more than 50 years. Mean Streets started the collaboration in 1973.
Their creative partnership stretches back more than 50 years. Mean Streets started the collaboration in 1973.

De Niro played Johnny Boy in Scorsese’s breakthrough crime drama, beginning one of the director-actor partnerships most closely associated with modern American cinema.

Taxi Driver followed just three years later. Travis Bickle became a defining De Niro performance.
Taxi Driver followed just three years later. Travis Bickle became a defining De Niro performance.

The 1976 drama earned De Niro an Academy Award nomination and produced one of the most enduring characters from his early career.

Raging Bull brought major awards recognition. De Niro won his second Academy Award.
Raging Bull brought major awards recognition. De Niro won his second Academy Award.

His performance as boxer Jake LaMotta earned him the 1981 Best Actor Oscar, while Scorsese received a Best Director nomination.

Their films kept moving across different worlds. Comedy and crime both became part of the partnership.
Their films kept moving across different worlds. Comedy and crime both became part of the partnership.

The pair subsequently collaborated on The King of Comedy, Goodfellas, and Cape Fear, demonstrating a working relationship that extended across genres.

Casino marked the end of their first major run. Then came a lengthy gap between feature films.
Casino marked the end of their first major run. Then came a lengthy gap between feature films.

Released in 1995, Casino reunited De Niro with Scorsese and Joe Pesci before De Niro and the director went more than two decades without another feature collaboration.

The Irishman brought them back together. Their reunion arrived in 2019.
The Irishman brought them back together. Their reunion arrived in 2019.

De Niro starred as Frank Sheeran alongside Al Pacino and Joe Pesci in Scorsese’s sprawling crime drama, which received 10 Academy Award nominations.

Killers of the Flower Moon followed in 2023. De Niro took on another major Scorsese role.
Killers of the Flower Moon followed in 2023. De Niro took on another major Scorsese role.

He portrayed William Hale in the historical drama alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, earning another Academy Award nomination.

Scorsese continues developing new projects. De Niro has not identified which one could reunite them.
Scorsese continues developing new projects. De Niro has not identified which one could reunite them.

The director remains attached to multiple potential films, but there has been no confirmation that De Niro will appear in any particular upcoming project.

Ten feature films have already defined their partnership. De Niro believes there is room for at least one more.
Ten feature films have already defined their partnership. De Niro believes there is room for at least one more.

More than five decades after Mean Streets, the actor remains open to extending a collaboration that has become a recurring part of both filmmakers’ careers.